The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-05-20

Of election shall Immediately after
the canvass of the votes for director,
send a certified copy of the vote cast
for said officer to the township clerk,
and the clerk shall certify the result to
the county clerk without delay"
Section Is: The township board
shall select a clerk not. of their own
number. Their meeting for organic
alton and election of clerk shall be the
second Tuesday in July.
Section %: I'm all elections heli
under the provisions of this act, all
persons who are qualified electors
under the general laws of our territory
and all women Of twenty-one years and
over, having the necessary q%ualiti-
cations as to citizenship and residence
required by the general laws. and who
have children of school age under their
care or control shall he qualified voters"
Section %: All persons. either
male of female. being twenty-one
years of age, and over, having the
necessary qualifications under the
general laws as to citizenship and resi-
dence. shall be eligible to the Office of
school director. judge or clerk of elect
ion. township clerk or county superin-
tendent.'
Section "a: The clerk of every
school township, through the directors
of the several sub-diStricts and every
board of education and school corpor-
alton. shall make or cause to be made
each year. an enumeration of all the
children who are residents within the
limits of the corporation on the first.
day of June. who are from seven to
twenty years of age inclusive. but shall
exclude from such enumeration all
such persons who are married. In
making such Enumeration there shall
be listed separately in a column. the
names of parents. guardians or heads
of families, having charge Of such
child or children, but only one in each
case-frst the father if living, then
the mother, if he is not living, and the
same in other cases. Opposite the
name in appropriate columns, he shall
enter the names of all She children
in charge of the person so named. the
males i'll onc column, and the females
in another column.
The first duty. it will be observed, is
that of temporary subdivision or sub
districting, which subdivision is to be
made on the last Tuesday in May.
In townships where there is but one
school, it should embrace proper terri
tory: its limits should he defined and a
polling place established therein, at
which all the legal voters of the entire
township shall be permitted to vote
for all township officers except one
director, who shall be a resident of said
sub-district, and who shall be elected
by the resident voters of said sub
district alone. Two ballot boxes
should be kept; n to receive the
ballots of the legal voters Of the sub
district for the director to be elected
by them, and the other for the re-
ception of the ballots of the legal
voters of the entire township. including
those within the sub-district for the
two directors to be elected at large and
the township treasurer.
Where there r two schools in a
school township. the entire township
should be temporarily divided into two
sub-districts with proper regard for the
convenience of the residents thereof
and a vote shall be taken in each for a
township treasurer and a director for
district Ma. / or 2, as the case may
be. and for a director at large. In
sub-dividing the convenience Of the
voters should be the guide, and common
fairness should control.
The new law makes no material
changes in the District System"